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wouldn’t ever get sick of exploring. He put
her last boyfriend to shame. She smiled as she thought how if it hadn’t been
for Cindy abandoning her, Aspen never would have met Taylor. Her ex-friend had
done her a favor in a roundabout way. It still didn’t make what Cindy had done
any better, but Taylor made up for some of it.
    Aspen washed her body, feeling how
she ached in intimate places in a good way. It had been too long since she’d
had sex, but the soreness would quickly go away. She and Taylor had already
planned to see each other tomorrow night. Today would be shot with the long
drive and getting settled at home.
    She finished her shower and dried
off with the motel’s poor excuse for a towel. It was barely big enough to keep
her covered as she walked out of the bathroom and headed for her suitcase to
get her toothbrush.
    “You can have the shower,” she told
Taylor. “Is it okay if I brush my teeth while you’re in there?”
    “No problem. Just don’t flush the
toilet on me.”
    “I promise not to do that.”
    She lifted her suitcase onto the
bed as Taylor pushed the covers off him and slipped from under the sheets.
Gloriously naked, he was a work of art with all his hard muscles. As if he
sensed her staring, he turned to face her and let her look her fill. The grin
he wore was crooked.
    Aspen was more than tempted to
close the distance between them and run her hands all over him, but before she
could move the sound of a cell phone going off reached her ears.
    Taylor grabbed his phone off the
small table next to the bed. “Hello? Blaise, why are you calling me so early…?
I should arrive sometime this evening… No, you don’t need to call again to see
where I am. I’ll get there when I get there. I said I’d come home and I won’t
go back on my word. Bye.” He disconnected the call and put his cell back where
it had been.
    “Someone checking up on you?” Aspen
asked.
    “Yeah, my brother. He wanted to
make sure I was on my way to Anchorage.”
    “There was a chance you wouldn’t go?”
    “Blaise thinks there is. As you
know, I’ve been estranged from my family for years now.”
    And that was all the explanation
Aspen got. Taylor walked past her and into the bathroom. By the time she’d
collected her toothbrush and toothpaste, he was already in the shower.
    Obviously, Taylor didn’t want to
talk about his family. She had no problem with that. They were still in the
get-to-know-you stage and she didn’t want to push too hard. It did make her
wonder what had caused the estrangement between him and his relatives, though.
She couldn’t picture herself being in that situation. At times she had her
differences with hers, but it never got so bad they stopped talking and seeing
one another.
    Aspen brushed her teeth, then
returned to the main room to dress. She’d just finished and was combing her
damp hair when Taylor stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around
his waist. It didn’t do much to cover him either.
    In the reflection of the mirror on
the wall that she stood in front of, she watched the towel get tossed away
before Taylor took some clothes out of his suitcase. Aspen wouldn’t have minded
if he’d stayed naked all day, but she doubted he would go for that. A girl
could dream, though.
    Once they’d collected all their
things and Taylor had put their cases in the bed of his pickup, he had Aspen
get into the cab while he went to the manager’s office to pay their bill. She’d
offered to fund her share, but he’d turned her down flat and wouldn’t take the
money even when she’d tried to hand it to him.
    The rest of the drive to Anchorage
turned out to be uneventful. Aspen and Taylor used the hours to talk, learning
more about each other. He was great company, and she figured with anyone else
it could have driven her batty after a while. The drive out to Skagway at the
beginning of the summer with Cindy had been torturous. Her ex-friend had done
nothing but talk about